TELEGRAMS TO G. L. PYATAKOV

Published:First published in 1942 inLenin Miscellany XXXIV.

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PyatakovCouncil of Labour Army 1Ekaterinburg

Inconfirmation of Comrade Vladimirsky’s telegram, the
Council of People’s Commissars instructs all local
institutions of the Cis-Urals to be extremely moderate and
cautious as regards the new administrative division of thegubernias. The Council of Labour Army 1 should also be
guided by this directive and, in particular, not set up any
special commissions on this
question[1]

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

PyatakovCouncil of Labour Army 1Ekaterinburg

Atits sitting on 20/IV. 20, the Council of People’s
Commissars decided: to reprimand the Council of Labour Army 
1 for its insufficiently serious attitude towards the question
of the new division of the gubernias, and to demand in
future more thorough preparation of the matter so that
there can be no contradictory reports from the localities.

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Writtenin reply to a telegram of April 17, 1920, in which the
Council of the 1st Labour Army asked that boundary changes
should be stopped and that it be allowed to draft maps of the
Urals and Cis-Urals gubernias and uyezds. On Lenin’s motion
this question was discussed by the Council of People’s Commissars
on April 20, 1920. In accordance with its decision, the present
telegram was sent to the Council of the 1st Labour Army.

Thesame meeting discussed a “Protest of the 1st Labour
Army Concerning the New Division of the Tyumen and
Chelyabinsk Gubernias”. =

The C.P.C. adopted the decision quoted in the
second telegram.